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'The Gift Outright' Poem read by Robert Frost at the 1961 inauguration of John F. Kennedy.
"The Gift Outright" the poem recited from memory by Robert Frost at the 1961 inauguration of John F. Kennedy

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Robert Frost Reads Poem at JFK's Inauguration
January 20, 1961

The poem moved many people. Ask your parents or grandparents if they heard Kennedy and Frost speak on that day in 1961. You can look at the original handwritten manuscripts here at the Library of Congress.
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